University of Minnesota Children’s Hospital, Fairview Position(s)
Neonatalogist

Other Related Positions Currently Held
Professor, Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota

Associate Director for Clinical Affairs, Division of Neonatology, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota

Board Certifications
Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine

Sees Patients At
- University of Minnesota Children's Hospital, Fairview
- Pediatric Specialty Clinic (Minneapolis)
- NICU Follow Up Clinic at Pediatric Specialty Clinic (Minneapolis)

Clinical Interests:
Neonatal Outreach
Pediatric Resident Education

Education:
Medical School
Indiana University

Site of Residency
University of Iowa Children’s Hospital (Pediatrics)

Site of Fellowship
University of Iowa Children’s Hospital (Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine)

Awards and Honors
Honors Research Program with Center for Paralysis Research, Purdue University (1986 – 1990) 

PL-2 Sarah Riesz Award for Compassion and Caring in patient care.  Department of Pediatrics (1993)

PL-3 Teacher of the Year, Department of Pediatrics (1994)

Outstanding PL-3 Award by Division of General Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics (1994)

Finalist, M3 Teacher of the Year, Carver College of Medicine (1996)

Competitive Institutional Research Fellowship, NIH funded University of Iowa Cardiovascular Center (1996 – 1997)

Joseph L. Butterfield Award for Excellence in Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, University of Colorado (1998)

Member, Teaching Scholars Program Office of Consultation and Research in Medical Education Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa (2001 – 2004)

Best Doctors in America®, 2006-2007

Best Doctors in America®, 2007-2008
       
Research Interest(s)
Inhaled nitric oxide in the treatment of chronic lung disease in premature infants 

Selected Recent Publications
George TN, Snyder JM.  Regulation of surfactant protein gene expression by retinoic acid metabolites.  Pediatr Res.  1997; 41:692-701.

Klein JM, Thompson MW, Snyder JM, George TN, Whitsett JA, Bell EF, McCray PB, Nogee LM.  Transient surfactant protein B deficiency in a term infant with severe respiratory failure. J Pediatr.  1998; 132:244-248.

George TN, Johnson KJ, Bates JN, Segar JL.  The effect of inhaled nitric oxide therapy on bleeding time and platelet aggregation in neonates.  J Pediatr.  1998; 132:731-734.

George TN, Miakotina OL, Goss KL, Snyder JM.  Mechanism of all-trans retinoic acid and glucocorticoid regulation of surfactant protein mRNA.  Am J Physiol (Lung Cell Mol Physiol). 1998; 274:L560-L566.

Acarregui MJ, George TN, Rhead WJ.  Carbohydrate-deficient glycoprotein syndrome type 1 with profound thrombocytopenia and normal phosphomannomutase and phosphomannose isomerase activities.  J Pediatr.  1998; 133(5):697-700.

Ephgrave K, Stansfield B, Woodhead J, Sharp WJ, George T, Lawrence J.  The resident view of professionalism behavior frequency in ‘outstanding’ and ‘not outstanding’ faculty.  Accepted, American Journal of Surgery.

George TN, Prince LS, Launspach J, Thomas C, Zabner J.  Nasal Voltage in premature infants treated with glucocorticoids.  Under revision.

Books or Chapters:
Snyder JM, George TN, Miakotina OL. Insulin and Lung Development.  In: Contemporary Endocrinology: Endocrinology of the Lung: Development.  Mendelson CR, ed. Humana Press Inc., Totowa, NJ 2000. p.181-200.

George TN Infection. In: Iowa Neonatology Handbook on the Web, 2003.